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I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#history #winter #art

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #art

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. ↗

— John Cheever

#fiction #inspirational #on-fiction #writing #art

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butchering #cows #craft #meat #art

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#words #art

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#artist #critic #flawless #truth #art

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#listening #work #art

If you don't listen to the question entirely, then you are going to revise your answers frequently. ↗

— Toba Beta

#the-art-of-listening-question #art